Recyclable materials are sorted at the Tri-County Recycling Facility in Appleton. This spring, the public should be able to add soft plastic Cool Whip and yogurt containers to their recyclables.

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A $1.9 million investment in the Tri-County Recycling Facility will soon allow Fox Valley residents to contribute plastic materials that haven't been accepted in the past.

Tubs and lids - like soft plastic Cool Whip and yogurt containers - have not been recycled at the plant since it opened in 2009.

"By the spring of 2014 we'll have the modifications complete to handle those materials," said Jill Haygood, Outagamie County's recycling administrator. "We have to modify our sorting line since it will be hand-sorted and then stored in a separate silo before it's bailed and shipped." ...